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Google Expands Usenet Archive to 20 Years
Paul Boutin writes "The Ghost of Usenet Postings Past has returned to haunt many more of us: Google just announced the expansion of their Usenet archive back to May 3, 1981."Check out the past on Groups.google.com
Awright! Just think of all the old porn that awaits my eager stare! No sleep for me tonight.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
I don't think ANYBODY should be held liable for Usenet postings they made when they were 14 years old...it's like having naked baby pictures of yourself stapled to your forehead when you walk around...
:)
On the other hand, you can now go back and see who REALLY won all those flame wars you were involved in
So that means that this is currently THE first post!
That's a neat timeline, but what it's missing that I'd love to see:
First Spam
First Metoo
First Flamewar
First MLM/chain letter
You know, the really important historical stuff.
Who moderates the meta-moderators?
Remember when alt.sexy.bald.captains still had Star Trek in it?? These days, it's all alt, sexy, and probably bald - but that's about it :(
"If you create user accounts, by default, they will have an account type of Administrator with no password." KB Q293834
Good thing Google made a Usenet archive without using a news server !
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Now I can browse all of my anti-Mac rantings from the comfort of my Powerbook G4.
"Remember, there never were pineapple-almond cookies here."
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Subject: Booya!
Date: Jan 01, 1981
Newsgroups: alt.flame,arpanet.general
First Post!
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Ah, those were the days.
-Legion
I just thank god no one seems to have archived IRC :-)
Wouldn't it be nice if schools got all the money they wanted and the army had to hold jumble sales for guns
I think this should be called the St. Peter Effect... you see, cuz when we go to heaven, St. Peter will Google us, and pull back everything we have ever thought, said or did - ranked by relevance or date... Just be glad that mere mortals are limited to 20 years of newsgroup postings!
BTW: If you search on my name and find stuff about LSD, it was another Chris McKinstry.
The card I have is a VG-2000 by DFI
with 512kB video ram, supposed to be able to do almost anything (well
1024x768 16 colours anyway). The problem is - it doesn't.
Hey, buddy, quit bitching and just use it in VGA mode, like everybody else.
If you don't like it, why don't you just go write your own drivers? While you're at it, why don't you go write your own Operating System???
(Heh heh... Sure told him a thing-or-two...)
-- My Weblog.
I found some of my earliest postings migrated from FidoNet to the Usenet groups. My jaw dropped when I saw the domain:
My.Name@p0.f860.n6007.z87.FIDONET.ORG
No wonder when the Web hit, people wanted Short Domain Names.
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
Man...I was just looking at some of my old posts (which I don't even remember how I made them).
I think we can have a collective opinion that when we were younger, we were a bunch of dumbasses.
So, with so much of our past now logged, will this be the "I didn't inhale" of the Teens and '20s?
"Why yes, I did occasionally scan alt.pictures.binaries.bestiality, but I didn't *download* anything..."
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Once: you're a philosopher. Twice: a pervert.
Wow! He embraced and innvoated Gordon Letwin's account!